caregivers
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Day 233 – Light Inside Pain
The words “gift” does not usually appear as a compliment to darkness. Yet caregivers understand this. Continue reading
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Day 217 – Caregiver Creativity
Exceptional caregivers tune their hearts to the pain of their patients. They follow up by releasing their “contained fire” where it is needed. Continue reading
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Days 214-216 – Daughters & Caregivers
All the characteristics we would want in our own caregiver are present with our daughter as she expresses her love to her child. Continue reading
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Day 205 – Hiding Places
Presence is so important in the lives of caregivers that those who practice it with intensity may feel the need to escape sometimes – to hide, to rest. Continue reading
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Days 203 & 204 – The Language Outside Language
Caregivers help heal pain through an unseen pathway we describe with a word: empathy. Patients in pain understand the gift of empathy. Continue reading
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Day 198 – How Friendship Heals
Eliot had a sweet understanding of the power of friendship and, important for us, she had the gift for how to express it! Eliot’s writing must have been very healing for her. Continue reading
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Day 196 – Wounds
Lovers cancel tears with tender eyes & skilled hands. But, wounds always scar Continue reading
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Day 184 – The Hidden Bible
Celebrate the Love that lives in you and flows through you. Celebrate your gifts of healing as you reach to release the pain of another with your loving touch. Behold the God that lives within you. Know yourself and you… Continue reading
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Day 183 – Beholding
Things and people are sacred and meaningful because of the way we encounter them. Since we are the ones who bring the meaning, then anything can be meaningful. Any anything may be a vehicle for transcendence Continue reading
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Day 182 – The Comfort of Fantasy
Caregivers must know that so many of their patients, especially the older ones, live in other worlds. The current world, with its illnesses and disabilities, is so difficult Continue reading
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